Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.

Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.

Praise thyself never.

Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good.

He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.