All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.

The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.

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.

He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

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

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?