The Things You Really Need Are Few

Neither One Should Hesitate About Dedicating Oneself To Philosophy When Young, Nor Should Get Tired Of Doing It When One's Old, Because No One Is Ever Too Young Or Too Old To Reach One's Soul's Healthy.

We Begin Every Act Of Choice And Avoidance From Pleasure, And It Is To Pleasure That We Return Using Our Experience Of Pleasure As The Criterion Of Every Good Thing.

It Is Not The Young Man Who Should Be Considered Fortunate But The Old Man Who Has Lived Well, Because The Young Man In His Prime Wanders Much By Chance, Vacillating In His Beliefs, While The Old Man Has Docked In The Harbor, Having Safeguarded His True Happiness.

What Men Fear Is Not That Death Is Annihilation But That It Is Not.

Of All The Gifts That Wise Providence Grants Us To Make Life Full And Happy, Friendship Is The Most Beautiful.