The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

After death there is nothing.

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.