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?

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

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

The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When such pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there is no pain either of body or of mind or of both together.

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.

For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.