A world is a circumscribed portion of sky... it is a piece cut off from the infinite.

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

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.

When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on physical enjoyment--as some think who do not understand our teachings, disagree with them, or give them an evil interpretation--but by pleasure we mean the state wherein the body is free from pain and the mind from anxiety.

Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.