Any device whatever by which one frees himself from fear is a natural good.
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...
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)
So long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, whil...
If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another
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.
Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind those of the past and future as well.
It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth is unhappy though he is master of the world.
So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the...
When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as is supposed by some who are either ignorant or disagree with...