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

The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.

Without confidence, there is no friendship.

Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.

It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.

Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.

All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.