All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.

Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.

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

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.

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.

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.