"When you have done a good deed and another has received it, why do you still ask for a third thing, as fools do, namely, that you may be thought to have done a good deed or that you may be rewarded?"

"Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or still uncertain. Short is the life of man, and short is the span of his plea…"

"The soul of man does violence to itself, first of all, when it becomes an abscess and, as it were, a tumour on the universe, so far as it can."

"Nothing is good but what is profitable."

"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, the…"