The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and justly without living pleasantly. Whenever any one of these is lacking, when, for instance, the man is not able to live wisely, though he lives honorably and justly, it is impossible for him to live a pleasant life.

For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible.

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on far out into space.

Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little