An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.

Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.

Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.

Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.

It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.

The profit on a good action is to have done it.

Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.