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

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.

The things you really need are few and easy to come by; but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied.

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

To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.