We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.

There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.

Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past.

A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.

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

God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees; 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.