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

Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city.

The honor paid to a wise man is a great good for those who honor him.

We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.