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.

Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on far out into space.

Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.

If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.