Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.

Whatsoever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not. It is nothing, then, either to the living or to the dead, for with the living it is not and the dead exist no longer.

Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it we always come back, inasmuch as we make feeling the rule by which to judge of every good thing.

All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help

The honor paid to a wise man is a great good for those who honor him.

The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.

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