There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract it is merely a compact between men.
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
He who is calm disturbs neither himself nor others.
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
Any device whatever by which one frees himself from fear is a natural good.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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.
The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth is unhappy, though he is master of the world.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present.
