Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.

Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help

Earthquakes may be brought about because wind is caught up in the earth, so the earth is dislocated in small masses and is continually shaken, and that causes it to sway.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.

Any device whatever by which one frees himself from the fear of others is a natural good.