1. Why should I demand of Fortune that she give rather than demand of myself that I should not crave?

2. Away with all these treacherous goods! They look better to those who hope for them than to those who have attained them.

3. Fix a limit which you will not even desire to pass.

4. “The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.” –

5. When you see many ahead of you, think how many are behind! If you would thank the gods, and be grateful for your past life, you should contemplate how many men you have outstripped. But what have you to do with the others? You have outstripped yourself.

6. If we could be satisfied with anything, we should have been satisfied long ago.

7. “It is wrong to live under constraint; but no man is constrained to live under constraint” – Epicurus

8. one who is chosen for the sake of utility will be satisfactory only so long as he is useful. Hence prosperous men are blockaded by troops of friends; but those who have failed stand amid vast loneliness their friends fleeing from the very crisis which is to test their worth.

9. The wise man, I say, Self sufficient though he be, nevertheless desires friends if only for the purpose of practicing friendship, in order that his noble qualities may not lie dormant. –

20. One who Seeks friendship for favourable occasions, strips it if all its nobility. – Seneca

21. For what purpose, then, do I make a man my friend? In order to have someone for whom I may die, whom I may follow into exile, against whose death I may stake my own life, pay the pledge, too.

22. If you would be loved, love. – Seneca.