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

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

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.

Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.

He who understands the limits of life knows that it is easy to obtain that which removes the pain of want and makes the whole of life complete and perfect. Thus he has no longer any need of things which involve struggle.

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.

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