The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.

A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.

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

The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.

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.