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.

A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.

This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.

Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.

The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.

If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.