We must consider both the ultimate end and all clear sensory evidence, to which we refer our opinions; for otherwise everything will be full of uncertainty and confusion.

Live your life without attracting attention.

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

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little

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?

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.