"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us."

"We should envy no one, for good men do not deserve envy, and as for the bad, the more they prosper, the more they harm themselves."

"It is not wealth that makes us happy, but the use we make of it."

"The beginning and the greatest good is prudence."

"Pleasure is the starting point and goal of living blessedly."