If atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a house or a slipper? By the same token, why do we not believe that if innumerable letters of the Greek alphabet were poured all over the market-place they would eventually happen to form the text of the Iliad?

Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.

We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.

Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.

It is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago.

There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.