Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.

We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing.

There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on far out into space.

Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is no profit in philosophy either, if it does not expel the suffering of the mind.

Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.