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?

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.

The term "incorporeal" is properly applied only to the void, which cannot act or be acted on. Since the soul can act and be acted upon, it is corporeal.

Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense.