When we exist, death is not yet present, and when death is present, then we do not exist.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it

He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.

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?

A blessed and indestructible being has no trouble himself and brings no trouble upon any other being; so he is free from anger and partiality, for all such things imply weakness.