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

He who needs riches least, enjoys riches most.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on physical enjoyment--as some think who do not understand our teachings, disagree with them, or give them an evil interpretation--but by pleasure we mean the state wherein the body is free from pain and the mind from anxiety.