Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them.

Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.

It is not the young man who should be considered fortunate but the old man who has lived well, because the young man in his prime wanders much by chance, vacillating in his beliefs, while the old man has docked in the harbor, having safeguarded his true happiness.

I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Do everything like someone is gazing at you.

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