"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?"
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."
"If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires."
"He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing ."
"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 you only hoped for."