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.

Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.

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

The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time; but the mind, understanding the end and limit of the flesh and ridding itself of fears of the future, secures a complete life and has no longer any need for unlimited time.

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.

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.

The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When such pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there is no pain either of body or of mind or of both together.