The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.
Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.
A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
He is the richest who is content with the least.
See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.