Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul.

The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.

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.

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

Many friends are the key to happiness

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.