When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth.

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.

Live your life without attracting attention.

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

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.

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

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.