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?

Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.

Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.

The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.

There is no power greater than true affection.