Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it we always come back, inasmuch as we make feeling the rule by which to judge of every good thing.

Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.

If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.

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