Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
No animal admires another animal.