People do not die - they kill themselves.

The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.

This is the difference between us Romans and the Etruscans: We believe that lightning is caused by clouds colliding, whereas they believe that clouds collide in order to create lightning. Since they attribute everything to gods, they are led to believe not that events have a meaning because they have happened, but that they happen in order to express a meaning.

The abundance of books is distraction

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.