Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.

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

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time; but the mind, understanding the end and limit of the flesh and ridding itself of fears of the future, secures a complete life and has no longer any need for unlimited time.

If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

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.

All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help