Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.
Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.
Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.
The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.
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.