Earthquakes may be brought about because wind is caught up in the earth, so the earth is dislocated in small masses and is continually shaken, and that causes it to sway.

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.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

Any device whatever by which one frees himself from the fear of others is a natural good.

The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.