If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

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 one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old

When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as is supposed by some who are either ignorant or disagree with us or do not understand, but freedom from pain in the body and from trouble in the mind. For it is not continuous drinkings and revelings, nor the satisfaction of lusts, nor the enjoyment of fish and other luxuries of the wealthy table, which produce a pleasant life, but sober reasoning, searching out the motives for all choice and avoidance, and banishing mere opinions, to which are due the greatest disturbance of the spirit.

Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.

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