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

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little

He who doesn't find a little enough will find nothing enough.

Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.

The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.

For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible.