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.

Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

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.

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.