The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

Being happy is knowing how to be content with little

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on physical enjoyment--as some think who do not understand our teachings, disagree with them, or give them an evil interpretation--but by pleasure we mean the state wherein the body is free from pain and the mind from anxiety.

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

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