You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.

As for me, when you want a good laugh, you will find me in fine state... fat and sleek, a true hog of Epicurus' herd.

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, and think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets you unforeseen, will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.

Anger is a momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.

The covetous man is ever in want.

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!

For why do you hasten to remove things that hurt your eyes, but if anything gnaws your mind, defer the time of curing it from year to year?

We are but numbers, born to consume resources.