It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

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

The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.

Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary.

When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on physical enjoyment--as some think who do not understand our teachings, disagree with them, or give them an evil interpretation--but by pleasure we mean the state wherein the body is free from pain and the mind from anxiety.

But the universe is infinite.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.