Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past.

There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.

Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.

All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.