Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

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.

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

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

The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.

So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.