The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men in their various relations with each other, in whatever circumstances they may be, that they will neither injure nor be injured.