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.

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

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

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

The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

An irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions of the majority. For what most men say about the gods are not ideas derived from sensation, but false opinions, according to which the greatest evils come to the wicked, and the greatest blessings come to the good from the gods.

Without confidence, there is no friendship.