When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth.

I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.

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

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.

The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.

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

What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?