Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.

There is no such thing as justice or injustice among those beasts that cannot make agreements not to injure or be injured. This is also true of those tribes that are unable or unwilling to make agreements not to injure or be injured.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

A world is a circumscribed portion of sky... it is a piece cut off from the infinite.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.