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

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.

The things you really need are few and easy to come by; but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied.

A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.

The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.