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

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.

There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on far out into space.

We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing.

The pleasant life is not produced by continual drinking and dancing, nor sexual intercourse, nor rare dishes of sea food and other delicacies of a luxurious table. On the contrary, it is produced by sober reasoning which examines the motives for every choice and avoidance, driving away beliefs which are the source of mental disturbances.

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