Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to curse, to act the hypocrite.

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.

It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.