All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

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.

We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men's keeping.

Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

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