The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.

We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old.

Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.