We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.
Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.
Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.