My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old.

When we exist, death is not yet present, and when death is present, then we do not exist.

We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing.

Justice has no independent existence; it results from mutual contracts, and establishes itself wherever there is a mutual engagement to guard against doing or sustaining mutual injury.

The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.