The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.

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

Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness; therefore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life an unlimited time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality. For life has no terror; for those who thoroughly apprehend that there are no terrors for them in ceasing to live.

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.

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

For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible.