Epicurus — "It is better to endure a necessary pain than to suffer a constant anxiety."

"Death is nothing to us; for that which is dissolved is without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us."

"We are born once and cannot be born twice, but for all eternity must be no more. But you, who are not master of tomorrow, postpone your happiness. Life is wasted by delaying, and each one of us dies w…"

"A free man cannot acquire many possessions, because this is difficult to do without serving either crowds or kings."

"Of all the things which wisdom provides for the happiness of the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friendship."

"The cheerful man is also the wise man."