Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

Truth and ceremony are two things.

The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Nothing is evil which is according to nature.