The Wealth Required By Nature

Pleasure Is Our First And Kindred Good. It Is The Starting Point Of Every Choice And Of Every Aversion, And To It We Always Come Back, Inasmuch As We Make Feeling The Rule By Which To Judge Of Every Good Thing.

It Is Better For You To Be Free Of Fear Lying Upon A Pallet, Than To Have A Golden Couch And A Rich Table And Be Full Of Trouble.

Justice... Is A Kind Of Compact Not To Harm Or Be Harmed.

The Wise Man Who Has Become Accustomed To Necessities Knows Better How To Share With Others Than How To Take From Them, So Great A Treasure Of Self-sufficiency Has He Found.

Men Are So Thoughtless, Nay, So Mad, That Some, Through Fear Of Death, Force Themselves To Die.