It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

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

Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it we always come back, inasmuch as we make feeling the rule by which to judge of every good thing.

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?

What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?

Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.

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