Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.

Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.