A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

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?

Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.

He who understands the limits of life knows that it is easy to obtain that which removes the pain of want and makes the whole of life complete and perfect. Thus he has no longer any need of things which involve struggle.

The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.