He Who Needs Riches Least,

We Begin Every Act Of Choice And Avoidance From Pleasure, And It Is To Pleasure That We Return Using Our Experience Of Pleasure As The Criterion Of Every Good Thing.

It Is Not So Much Our Friends' Help That Helps Us, As The Confidence Of Their Help.

Whatsoever Causes No Annoyance When It Is Present, Causes Only A Groundless Pain In The Expectation. 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. It Is Nothing, Then, Either To The Living Or To The Dead, For With The Living It Is Not And The Dead Exist No Longer.

All Sensations Are True; Pleasure Is Our Natural Goal.

We Must Consider Both The Ultimate End And All Clear Sensory Evidence, To Which We Refer Our Opinions; For Otherwise Everything Will Be Full Of Uncertainty And Confusion.