Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.

The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.

In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.

That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: "Shut up," he said, "so that they do not realize that you are here with me.