Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
What a man hates, he takes seriously.
'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.
We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.