Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.

Tranquil pleasure constitutes human beings' supreme good

It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.

If death causes you no pain when you're dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.

Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.

The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When such pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there is no pain either of body or of mind or of both together.

Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary.