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

There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.

Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.

When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on physical enjoyment--as some think who do not understand our teachings, disagree with them, or give them an evil interpretation--but by pleasure we mean the state wherein the body is free from pain and the mind from anxiety.

The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

The wise man thinks of fame just enough to avoid being despised.

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.