Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.

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

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

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