Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.

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

An irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions of the majority. For what most men say about the gods are not ideas derived from sensation, but false opinions, according to which the greatest evils come to the wicked, and the greatest blessings come to the good from the gods.

The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.

Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.

To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.

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.