There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.

Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?

Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.

In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.