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

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.

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

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.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men in their various relations with each other, in whatever circumstances they may be, that they will neither injure nor be injured.

Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.