A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it

The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.

I do not understand; I pause; I examine.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part is no less necessary than the other.

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.