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.

Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense.

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?

Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.

Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.

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

The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.