The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites.

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain.

A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.