Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.

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.

Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.

Do everything like someone is gazing at you.

Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.

Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it we always come back, inasmuch as we make feeling the rule by which to judge of every good thing.