Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.

How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence?

Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.

Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that it is kept in. One man sees clearly but does not see straight: consequently he sees what is good but fails to follow it; he sees knowledge and does not use it.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

All permanent decisions are made in a temporary state of mind.

Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.