"To say that 'men cannot live without women' is to confess that men are not self-sufficient, and that their well-being is dependent on something outside themselves."

"Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the universe loves nothing so much as to change existing things and to make new things like…"

"Thou wilt soon die, and thou art not yet simple, nor free from perturbations, nor without suspicion of harm from external things, nor an affectionate friend to wisdom, nor without suspicion that any e…"

"All things are interwoven, and the bond is holy; and there is hardly anything foreign to another; for they have been arranged together, and they constitute the same order."

"What then is that which is able to conduct a man? One thing and only one, philosophy. But this consists in keeping the demon within a man free from violence and unharmed, superior to pains and pleasur…"