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.

God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.

As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.

Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride

This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.