"The man who is most blessed is he who has the fewest wants."

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

"I was never anxious to please the mob, for I have not learned what pleases it."

"A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is no easy thing to do without servility to mobs or monarchs."

"It is better to be unfortunate in a reasonable manner than to be fortunate in an unreasonable one."