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

We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

Moreover, the universe as a whole is infinite, for whatever is limited has an outermost edge to limit it, and such an edge is defined by something beyond. Since the universe has no edge, it has no limit; and since it lacks a limit, it is infinite and unbounded. Moreover, the universe is infinite both in the number of its atoms and in the extent of its void.

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

Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.