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

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.

Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.

If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.