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.

It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.

We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it

As if they were our own handiwork we place a high value on our characters.

Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them.

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.