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.

The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

He who needs riches least, enjoys riches most.

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

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

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.