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

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

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.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Many friends are the key to happiness