Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little

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.

Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

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

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

Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.