Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.

We must consider both the ultimate end and all clear sensory evidence, to which we refer our opinions; for otherwise everything will be full of uncertainty and confusion.

As if they were our own handiwork we place a high value on our characters.

Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.