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.

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.

The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time; but the mind, understanding the end and limit of the flesh and ridding itself of fears of the future, secures a complete life and has no longer any need for unlimited time.

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.

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

All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.

A world is a circumscribed portion of sky... it is a piece cut off from the infinite.