Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Justice is never anything in itself, but in the dealings of men with one another in any place whatever and at any time. It is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

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.

There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on far out into space.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.