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.

The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.

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.

I do not understand; I pause; I examine.

Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.

When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.

The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.