Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.

We must consider both the ultimate end and all clear sensory evidence, to which we refer our opinions; for otherwise everything will be full of uncertainty and confusion.

Whatsoever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not. It is nothing, then, either to the living or to the dead, for with the living it is not and the dead exist no longer.

Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these fears not on mature opinions, but on irrational fancies, that they are more disturbed by fear of the unknown than by facing facts. Peace of mind lies in being delivered from all these fears.

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense.