Death pays all debts.

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.

Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.

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.

It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on the highest throne in the world we are still sitting on our own ass.

It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.