As if they were our own handiwork we place a high value on our characters.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

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

Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul.

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

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.