Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.

When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth.

What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.

Tranquil pleasure constitutes human beings' supreme good