Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city.

Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Those desires that do not bring pain if they are not satisfied are not necessary; and they are easily thrust aside whenever to satisfy them appears difficult or likely to cause injury.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

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.

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.