If death causes you no pain when you're dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.
What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.
Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is no profit in philosophy either, if it does not expel the suffering of the mind.
He who doesn't find a little enough will find nothing enough.
A world is a circumscribed portion of sky... it is a piece cut off from the infinite.
Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul.