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

Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure

Whatsoever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not. It is nothing, then, either to the living or to the dead, for with the living it is not and the dead exist no longer.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.