We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help when in need.
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
quote by Epicurus
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
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.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
