“Why should I fear death?If I am, then death is not.If Death is, then I am not.Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?Long time men lay oppressed with slavish fear.Religious tyranny did domineer.At length the mighty one of GreeceBegan to assent the liberty of man.”

“If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.”

“The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.”

“I would like Epicurus and Buddha to become one.”

“There is no such thing as justice in the abstract it is merely a compact between men. ”

“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”

“The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.”

“It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.”

“If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.”

“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.”

“We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.”