Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that of ourselves; solitude relieves us when we are sick of company, and conversation when we are weary of being alone, so that the one cures the other. There is no man so miserable as he that is at a loss how to use his time

If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.

Life is most delightful on the downward slope.