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, andWhat is terrible is easy to endure.

It is with this movement, with the passage and dissolution of impressions, images, sensations, that analysis leaves off—that continual vanishing away, that strange, perpetual weaving and unweaving of ourselves.

Men inflict injuries from hatred, jealousy or contempt, but the wise man masters all these passions by means of reason.

Death means nothing to us

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.