All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help

Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.

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.

When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on physical enjoyment--as some think who do not understand our teachings, disagree with them, or give them an evil interpretation--but by pleasure we mean the state wherein the body is free from pain and the mind from anxiety.

The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When such pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there is no pain either of body or of mind or of both together.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

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