There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.

Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.

Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.

Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.

True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.