The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to proc... - Epicurus

"Il culmine del piacere è la pura e semplice distruzione del dolore."

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

"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."

"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."

"Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not."