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?

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

Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.