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

Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.

When we exist, death is not yet present, and when death is present, then we do not exist.

Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these fears not on mature opinions, but on irrational fancies, that they are more disturbed by fear of the unknown than by facing facts. Peace of mind lies in being delivered from all these fears.

Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.