Is it not better to remain in suspense than to entangle yourself in the many errors that the human fancy has produced? Is it not better to suspend your convictions than to get mixed up in these seditious and quarrelsome divisions?

Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.

A man must become wise at his own expense.

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

I do not know whether I would not like much better to have produced one perfectly formed child by intercourse with the muses than by intercourse with my wife.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.