Death is nothing to us: for after our bodies have been dissolved by death they are without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. And therefore a right understanding of death makes mortality enjoyable, not because it adds to an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality.

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.

Those desires that do not bring pain if they are not satisfied are not necessary; and they are easily thrust aside whenever to satisfy them appears difficult or likely to cause injury.

Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul.

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

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.