Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.

Dignity increases more easily than it begins.

Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

Do not grudge your brother his rest. He has at last become free, safe and immortal, and ranges joyous through the boundless heavens; he has left this low-lying region and has soared upwards to that place which receives in its happy bosom the souls set free from the chains of matter. Your brother has not lost the light of day, but has obtained a more enduring light. He has not left us, but has gone on before.

To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?