Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.

I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by too much water or lamps by too much oil; that our minds, held fast and encumbered by so many diverse preoccupations, may well lose the means of struggling free, remaining bowed and bent under the load; except that it is quite otherwise: the more our souls are filled, the more they expand; examples drawn from far-off times show, on the contrary, that great soldiers ad statesmen were also great scholars.

Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to 't.

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.

I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.