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

My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old.

There is no such thing as justice or injustice among those beasts that cannot make agreements not to injure or be injured. This is also true of those tribes that are unable or unwilling to make agreements not to injure or be injured.

Many friends are the key to happiness

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

He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.

Tranquil pleasure constitutes human beings' supreme good