Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

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