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

Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.

Do everything like someone is gazing at you.

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

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

Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.

Any device whatever by which one frees himself from the fear of others is a natural good.