Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.

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?

To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.

Death is nothing to us: for after our bodies have been dissolved by death they are without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. And therefore a right understanding of death makes mortality enjoyable, not because it adds to an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality.

Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.

Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.

We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.