The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time; but the mind, understanding the end and limit of the flesh and ridding itself of fears of the future, secures a complete life and has no longer any need for unlimited time.

The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.

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

An irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions of the majority. For what most men say about the gods are not ideas derived from sensation, but false opinions, according to which the greatest evils come to the wicked, and the greatest blessings come to the good from the gods.

There is no such thing as justice or injustice among those beasts that cannot make agreements not to injure or be injured. This is also true of those tribes that are unable or unwilling to make agreements not to injure or be injured.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

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