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

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.

Without confidence, there is no friendship.

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When such pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there is no pain either of body or of mind or of both together.

Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.