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.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride

He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.