Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.

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.

The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time; but the mind, understanding the end and limit of the flesh and ridding itself of fears of the future, secures a complete life and has no longer any need for unlimited time.

He who needs riches least, enjoys riches most.

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.