"Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the possession of friends."

"Pleasure is the beginning and the end of the blessed life."

"It is better to lie on a humble pallet and be free from care than to own a golden bed and be full of trouble."

"Every pain is easy to despise, for the one who has considered it in its real limits."

"The quantity of pleasure is to be judged by the quantity of pain it removes."