The term "incorporeal" is properly applied only to the void, which cannot act or be acted on. Since the soul can act and be acted upon, it is corporeal.

Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.

What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time; but the mind, understanding the end and limit of the flesh and ridding itself of fears of the future, secures a complete life and has no longer any need for unlimited time.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.