If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

When we exist, death is not yet present, and when death is present, then we do not exist.

It is not the young man who should be considered fortunate but the old man who has lived well, because the young man in his prime wanders much by chance, vacillating in his beliefs, while the old man has docked in the harbor, having safeguarded his true happiness.

All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

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

Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.