It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well and justly without living pleasurably.

A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth and spreading fertility: it is therefore more delightful and more honourable to give than receive.

Plain fare gives as much pleasure as a costly diet, while bread and water confer the highest possible pleasure when they are brought to hungry lips.

We recognize pleasure as the first good innate in us, and from pleasure we begin every act of choice and avoidance, and to pleasure we return again, using the feeling as the standard by which we judge every good.

Stranger, here you do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.

He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

He is a little man in every way, for whom there are many reasons for departing from life.

Don't fear the gods. Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and what is terrible is easy to endure.

Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it: for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.