He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.

Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it we always come back, inasmuch as we make feeling the rule by which to judge of every good thing.

Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary.

Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.

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.