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.

Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it we always come back, inasmuch as we make feeling the rule by which to judge of every good thing.

Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.

The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city.

Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure