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

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

The term "incorporeal" is properly applied only to the void, which cannot act or be acted on. Since the soul can act and be acted upon, it is corporeal.

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.