"The flesh receives as unlimited the limits of pleasure; and to provide it requires unlimited time. But the mind, intellectually grasping what the end and limit of the flesh is, and banishing the terro…"

"The pleasure of the soul is superior to that of the body."

"Death is nothing to us; for that which has been dissolved into its elements experiences no sensation, and that which has no sensation is nothing to us."

"It is not possible to dispel the fear of the most important things unless one understands the whole nature of the universe."

"I was never anxious to please the mob, for I have not learned what pleases it."