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

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.

The things you really need are few and easy to come by; but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied.

Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

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?