Life without the courage to die is slavery.

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.

A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.

It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.

To meditate an injury is to commit one.

What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?