Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Luck never made a man wise.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

The expression of truth is simplicity.

What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.

Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.