To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary.

He who doesn't find a little enough will find nothing enough.

All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

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

He who understands the limits of life knows that it is easy to obtain that which removes the pain of want and makes the whole of life complete and perfect. Thus he has no longer any need of things which involve struggle.