In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness; therefore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life an unlimited time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality. For life has no terror; for those who thoroughly apprehend that there are no terrors for them in ceasing to live.

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

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.