The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.
He that is a friend to himself, know; he is a friend to all.
Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.
Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.