Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.
We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.
Tranquil pleasure constitutes human beings' supreme good
Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.