Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.
He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.
If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
Don’t fear the gods,Don’t worry about death;What is good is easy to get, andWhat is terrible is easy to endure.
Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
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.
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 dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)
The man who says that all events are necessitated has no ground for critizing the man who says that not all events are necessitated. For according to him this is itself a necessitated event.
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.
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Don’t fear the gods,Don’t worry about death;What is good is easy to get, andWhat is terrible is easy to endure.