Status Updates From Briefe an Lucilius

- A sound mind can neither be bought or borrowed
- I wasn’t born for one particular corner, the whole world’s my home country
- The thing you are looking for, the good life, is available everywhere

- Without wisdom, the mind is sick

- If you wish to be loved, love

- Nothing, however outstanding and however hopeful, will ever give me any pleasure if knowledge is to be for my benefit alone
- What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend! That is progress indeed, such a person will never be alone
- Associate with people who are likely to improve you
- Men learn as they teach
- Each of us is audience enough for the other
- Your merits should not be outward facing

- Why should I keep back anything when I’m with a friend?
- Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement
- The simple way of live need not be a crude one
- No one confines his unhappiness to the present