The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.
The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.
All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.
Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.
Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.