Being happy is knowing how to be content with little

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive.

Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.