"One must not pretend to philosophize, but really philosophize; for what we need is not the semblance of health, but real health."

"It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he does not understand the nature of the universe but still suspects something of the stories told in myths. So, wi…"

"Every pain is easy to despise, for the one who has considered it in its real limits."

"Empty is the argument of the philosopher by which no human suffering is therapeutically treated."

"The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When that point is attained, pleasure does not further increase, but only varies in kind."