Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.

Nature has inclined us to love men.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.