A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.

It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.

We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.

All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.

If death causes you no pain when you're dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.