Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

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.

Live your life without attracting attention.

If death causes you no pain when you're dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.

There is no such thing as justice or injustice among those beasts that cannot make agreements not to injure or be injured. This is also true of those tribes that are unable or unwilling to make agreements not to injure or be injured.

Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.