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

"We should heal our misfortunes by the recollection of our past joys and by the acknowledgment that it is impossible to undo what has been done."

"Death is nothing to us; for that which is dissolved is without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us."

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

"The wise man is able to live well even in poverty."