The man who says that all events are necessitated has no ground for critizing the man who says that not all events are necessitated. For according to him this is itself a necessitated event.
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?
We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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 better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
How unhappy are the lives of men! How purblind their hearts!
The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
The opinions held by most people about the gods are not true conceptions of them but fallacious notions, according to which awful penalties are meted out to the evil and the greatest of blessings to the good.
when you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
