Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.

If the gods have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not all-powerful. If they are neither able nor willing, they are neither all-powerful or benevolent. If they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, why does it exist?

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men in their various relations with each other, in whatever circumstances they may be, that they will neither injure nor be injured.