Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.

The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.

The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.

We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.

Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t.

Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.