Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.
For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible.
I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.
A world is a circumscribed portion of sky... it is a piece cut off from the infinite.
It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.
A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive.