Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.