Epicurus

No pleasure is in itself evil, but the things which produce certain pleasures entail annoyances many times greater than the pleasures themselves.

Of all the means which are procured by wisdom to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

Friendship dances around the world bidding us all to awaken to the recognition of happiness.

Nothing is enough to someone for whom what is enough is little.

Question each of your desires: “What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?”

It is not an unbroken succession of drinking-bouts and of merrymaking, not sexual love, not the enjoyment of the fish and other delicacies of a luxurious table, which produce a pleasant life; it is sober reasoning, searching out the grounds of every choice and avoidance, and banishing those beliefs through which the greatest disturbances take possession of the soul.