The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

When you have movies who help, who give belief and show strength, it’s good.

I see a Latino comic as someone who can only perform for Latino audiences, … I cross the board.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can and does not want to.
If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent.
If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked.
If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?

We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.

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.

If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.

The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death… just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.

The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men in their various relations with each other, in whatever circumstances they may be, that they will neither injure nor be injured.

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.

Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these fears not on mature opinions, but on irrational fancies, that they are more disturbed by fear of the unknown than by facing facts. Peace of mind lies in being delivered from all these fears.

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.

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.

A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.

Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul.

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is no profit in philosophy either, if it does not expel the suffering of the mind.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.

One person of integrity can make a difference.

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

Without my Savior, I am nothing.