[A] right understanding that death is nothingto us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not because it adds to itan infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving forimmortality. For t...
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 no...
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind those of the past and future as well as the present.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
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.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.
Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.