All cruelty springs from weakness.

Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.

Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.

There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.

The most happy ought to wish for death.

What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.

Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.