I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.

He who understands the limits of life knows that it is easy to obtain that which removes the pain of want and makes the whole of life complete and perfect. Thus he has no longer any need of things which involve struggle.

Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.

He who doesn't find a little enough will find nothing enough.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.

Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul.