Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense.

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 impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.

The things you really need are few and easy to come by; but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied.