What can they suffer that do not fear to die?

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are

God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with gore, and to allow his lips to touch the flesh of a murdered being: who spread his table with the mangled forms of dead bodies, and claimed as daily food and dainty dishes what but now were beings endowed with movement, perception and with voice. …but for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that portion of life and time it had been born in to the world to enjoy.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.