One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.