Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.

The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.