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

He who understands the limits of life knows that it is easy to obtain that which removes the pain of want and makes the whole of life complete and perfect. Thus he has no longer any need of things which involve struggle.

The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.

What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.

Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.

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.

Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.