Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.