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

Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.

A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

The pleasant life is not produced by continual drinking and dancing, nor sexual intercourse, nor rare dishes of sea food and other delicacies of a luxurious table. On the contrary, it is produced by sober reasoning which examines the motives for every choice and avoidance, driving away beliefs which are the source of mental disturbances.

If death causes you no pain when you're dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.