All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.

He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.

Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.