"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 art of living well and the art of dying well are one."
"Il culmine del piacere è la pura e semplice distruzione del dolore."
"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."
"He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing ."
"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."