The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.

It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account.

There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.

Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.