Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.
Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.
The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.
The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.
Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.