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.

All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

Justice has no independent existence; it results from mutual contracts, and establishes itself wherever there is a mutual engagement to guard against doing or sustaining mutual injury.

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

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

He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.