Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's".

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents

There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.

Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.