"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."
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."
"Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering."
"Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not."
"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?"