Don't fear the gods,
Don't worry about death;
What is good is easy to get, and
What is terrible is easy to endure.

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

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.

To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures.

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old

Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.