From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.

...if one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.

You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.

How many evils have flowed from religion.

Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.