The most happy ought to wish for death.
Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.
One must steer, not talk.
It is pleasant at times to play the madman.