"The pleasure of the stomach is the root and source of all good."

"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."

"A free man cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not an easy thing to do without at the same time becoming a slave to mobs or kings."

"Empty is the argument of the philosopher by which no human suffering is therapeutically treated."

"The pleasure which is sought after by the many is not true pleasure, but only the absence of pain."