Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.

The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.

Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire universe. Boredom is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the soul's boundless needs.

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

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.