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“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”
“The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.”
“It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.”
“Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.”
“I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.”
“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.”
“27. Of all the means which are procured by wisdom to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the acquisition of firends.”
“He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .”
“האם אלוהים לא מסוגל למנוע רשע, וגם לא רוצה למנועו? – אז מדוע לשבח שמו כאלוהים?”
“האם אלוהים לא מסוגל למנוע רשע, אך רוצה למנוע אותו? – אז הוא אינו אומניפוטנטי (כל יכול).”
“האם אלוהים מסוגל למנוע רשע, וגם רוצה? – אז מנין מגיע רשע לעולם?”
“האם אלוהים מסוגל למנוע רשע, אך לא רוצה? – אם כך הוא אינו רחום או מטיב, אלא מלא זדון.”
“נולדנו פעם אחת ואי אפשר להיוולד פעם שנייה; לנצח נצחים לא נתקיים עוד. אבל אתה, למרות שאתה לא שולט על המחר, דוחה את האושר שלך. החיים מתבזבזים על ידי עיכוב, וכל אחד מאיתנו מת מבלי ליהנות מזמנו.”
“עלינו להשתחרר מן הכלא של ענייני יום־יום, פרטיים וציבוריים.”
“אל נא תקנא באיש; הטובים אין זה לזכותם שיקנאו בהם, והרעים ככל שגדל עושרם יותר הם מושחתים.”
“אל נא תעשה דבר בחייך שיגרום לך לחשוש כי שכנך יידע עליו.”