Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.

There is nothing after death, and death itself is nothing.

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.

Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.