Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these fears not on mature opinions, but on irrational fancies, that they are more disturbed by fear of the unknown than by facing facts. Peace of mind lies in being delivered from all these fears.

My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old.

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

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

The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.

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.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.