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

But the universe is infinite.

All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.

A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive.

Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.