It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

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.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.

Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.

Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.

No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.