The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.
I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.
He who doesn't find a little enough will find nothing enough.
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.