Everything is here for a purpose, from horses to vine shoots. What's surprising about that? Even the sun will tell you, "I have a purpose," and the other goods as well.

The best sort of revenue is not to be like him who did the injury.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.

It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way.