We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.

Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors.

A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.

It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.

Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.

If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.

The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.