The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.

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.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

It is not the young man who should be considered fortunate but the old man who has lived well, because the young man in his prime wanders much by chance, vacillating in his beliefs, while the old man has docked in the harbor, having safeguarded his true happiness.

Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.

What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.