No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.

The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.

Socrates ... brought human wisdom back down from heaven, where she was wasting her time, and restored her to man.... It is impossible to go back further and lower. He did a great favor to human nature by showing how much it can do by itself.

To die is not to play a part in society; it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends; let us die and sulk among strangers.

Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?