Quote by Epicurus (341 BC-270 BC)

• 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?.

• A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

• The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

• Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

• The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

• The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.