There is no such thing as justice or injustice among those beasts that cannot make agreements not to injure or be injured. This is also true of those tribes that are unable or unwilling to make agreements not to injure or be injured.

The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.

Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.

The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.

If the gods have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not all-powerful. If they are neither able nor willing, they are neither all-powerful or benevolent. If they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, why does it exist?

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.