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.

There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.

The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time; but the mind, understanding the end and limit of the flesh and ridding itself of fears of the future, secures a complete life and has no longer any need for unlimited time.

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on far out into space.

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.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.