The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.

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 impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense.