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?

Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.