He who doesn't find a little enough will find nothing enough.

Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it we always come back, inasmuch as we make feeling the rule by which to judge of every good thing.

Death is nothing to us: for after our bodies have been dissolved by death they are without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. And therefore a right understanding of death makes mortality enjoyable, not because it adds to an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality.

Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

There is no such thing as justice or injustice among those beasts that cannot make agreements not to injure or be injured. This is also true of those tribes that are unable or unwilling to make agreements not to injure or be injured.