Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.

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?

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul.

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

The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.

Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.