Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.

Death is nothing to us: for after our bodies have been dissolved by death they are without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. And therefore a right understanding of death makes mortality enjoyable, not because it adds to an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality.

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.

The honor paid to a wise man is a great good for those who honor him.

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.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.