I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.

We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it

We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing.

The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.

There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on far out into space.