The things you really need are few and easy to come by; but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied.

When we exist, death is not yet present, and when death is present, then we do not exist.

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

Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.

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.

To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.