Epicurus — "The greatest good is to be free from troubles of the mind."

"Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not."

"It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the universe but still suspects something of the stories told in myths. So that it is…"

"The flesh cries out for an end to hunger, an end to thirst, an end to cold. If a man has these, and is confident of having them in the future, he might contend in happiness even with Zeus."

"We should envy no one, for good men do not deserve envy, and as for the bad, the more they prosper, the more they harm themselves."

"The wise man is happy even when he is being tortured."