You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing for you - is to die soon.

Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know.

Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally.

Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.

Some men are born posthumously.

Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!