The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.
Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.