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.

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

Man is a social animal.

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