Of All The Things Which Wisdom Provides

A Free Life Cannot Acquire Many Possessions, Because This Is Not Easy To Do Without Servility To Mobs Or Monarchs.

If You Would Enjoy Real Freedom, You Must Be The Slave Of Philosophy.

If The Gods Have The Will To Remove Evil And Cannot, Then They Are Not All-powerful. If They Are Neither Able Nor Willing, They Are Neither All-powerful Or Benevolent. If They Are Both Able And Willing To Annihilate Evil, Why Does It Exist?

It Is Not The Young Man Who Should Be Considered Fortunate But The Old Man Who Has Lived Well, Because The Young Man In His Prime Wanders Much By Chance, Vacillating In His Beliefs, While The Old Man Has Docked In The Harbor, Having Safeguarded His True Happiness.

The Flesh Believes That Pleasure Is Limitless And That It Requires Unlimited Time; But The Mind, Understanding The End And Limit Of The Flesh And Ridding Itself Of Fears Of The Future, Secures A Complete Life And Has No Longer Any Need For Unlimited Time.