Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary.

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.

Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.

Luxurious food and drinks, in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural, is no more use than an overflowing container. Real value is not generated by theaters, and baths, perfumes or ointments, but by philosophy.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.