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.

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

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

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth.

We must consider both the ultimate end and all clear sensory evidence, to which we refer our opinions; for otherwise everything will be full of uncertainty and confusion.