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.
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.
Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.