The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.

The things you really need are few and easy to come by; but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied.

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.

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.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

We must consider both the ultimate end and all clear sensory evidence, to which we refer our opinions; for otherwise everything will be full of uncertainty and confusion.

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.