The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time; but the mind, understanding the end and limit of the flesh and ridding itself of fears of the future, secures a complete life and has no longer any need for unlimited time.

Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.

Many friends are the key to happiness

Without confidence, there is no friendship.

An irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions of the majority. For what most men say about the gods are not ideas derived from sensation, but false opinions, according to which the greatest evils come to the wicked, and the greatest blessings come to the good from the gods.

I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.