Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Earthquakes may be brought about because wind is caught up in the earth, so the earth is dislocated in small masses and is continually shaken, and that causes it to sway.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and justly without living pleasantly. Whenever any one of these is lacking, when, for instance, the man is not able to live wisely, though he lives honorably and justly, it is impossible for him to live a pleasant life.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.