Apples taste sweetest when they're going.

You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.

You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.

He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.

I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks of maids labor so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife's body.