Epicurus

The wise man is self-sufficient, yet he welcomes companionship.

Misfortune is the test of the good man's character.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

The flesh receives the sensation of pleasure and of pain; and where it attains pleasure, it does not want to flow on to the next moment, nor, when the pain is present, to postpone it.

We choose neither the past nor the absent; therefore do not grieve over the past.

The study of the natural world is the surest symptom of the pursuit of wisdom.

If you fight against all the sensations of pleasure, you do not live.

The honor paid to a wise man is not a profit to him but to the one who pays it.

The wise man feels pain like a child.

Bodily pleasures are good, but the mind's are better.

The beginning and the greatest of all goods is prudence.

The disturbance of the soul is worse than that of the body.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since if we have them we have all, but if we lack them we have nothing.

The end cannot be attained by the separate pursuit of each virtue, but only by the pursuit of them all.

Fortune is a brief power; the longer it lasts, the more it is exposed to envy and danger.

The man who says that all things happen by chance does not differ from one who says that they happen by arrangement.

The just man is least disturbed and least the cause of disturbance to others.

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

The purest security from want is a frugal table.

In a word, happiness depends on ourselves more than on external circumstances.