Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.

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

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.

Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Tranquil pleasure constitutes human beings' supreme good

We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.