What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.

The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.

Without confidence, there is no friendship.

All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on physical enjoyment--as some think who do not understand our teachings, disagree with them, or give them an evil interpretation--but by pleasure we mean the state wherein the body is free from pain and the mind from anxiety.

No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.

Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary.

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

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

We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it

My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old.

Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them.

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

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth.

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.

It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.