It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.

A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.

The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.

If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.