In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.

All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?