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

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

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.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

We must consider both the ultimate end and all clear sensory evidence, to which we refer our opinions; for otherwise everything will be full of uncertainty and confusion.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.