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He who understands the limits of life knows that it is easy to obtain that which removes the pain of want and makes the whole of life complete and perfect. Thus he has no longer any need of things which involve struggle.
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.
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 noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.
Live your life without attracting attention.
Happiness is man’s greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.
Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?
God is all-powerful. God is perfectly good. Evil exists. If God exists, there would be no evil. Therefore God does not exist.
You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.