Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.
He will live ill who does not know how to die well.
Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.