The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.

How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.

A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.

There is nothing after death, and death itself is nothing.

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.

Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride