“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 w...”

“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”

“He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .”

“Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.”

“Don't fear the gods,Don't worry about death;What is good is easy to get, andWhat is terrible is easy to endure.”

“If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.”