The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

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

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.

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

The term "incorporeal" is properly applied only to the void, which cannot act or be acted on. Since the soul can act and be acted upon, it is corporeal.