“The whole of being consists of atom and void.”

“Not every pleasure is worth choosing. We may instead avoid certain pleasures when, by doing so, we avoid greater pains. We may also choose to accept pain if, by doing so, it results in greater pleasure… Only upon considering all consequences should we decide.”

“We have been born once and there can be no second birth. For all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.”

“Be not slack to seek wisdom when thou art young, nor weary in the search thereof when thou art grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.”

“Frugality too has a limit, and the man who disregards it is in like case with him who errs through excess. “

“That which produces a jubilation unsurpassed is the nature of good, if you apply your mind rightly and then stand firm and do not stroll about, prating meaninglessly about the good.”

“Pleasure, we declare, is the beginning and end of the happy life.”

“Furthermore, there are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number, as was proved already, are borne on far out into space… So that there nowhere exists an obstacle to the infinite number of the worlds.”

“I have written this letter to you on a happy day to me, which is also the last day of my life. For I have been attacked by a painful inability to urinate, and also dysentery, so violent that nothing can be added to the violence of my sufferings. But the cheerfulness of my mind… counterbalances all these afflictions.”

“To secure protection from men anything is a natural good, by which you may be able to attain this end.”