All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.

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

The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.

Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.