“Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.”

“It is not the pretended but the real pursuit of philosophy that is needed for we do not need the appearance of good health but to enjoy it in truth.”

“We must exercise ourselves in thte things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.”

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

“We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.”

“I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.”

“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”