A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.
There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.
We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.
There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.
The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.