Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.
Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
What is true belongs to me!
He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.
When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.