I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good (of this I am as certain as I can be of any such matters), and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind. And therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead.

To harm another is to harm oneself

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.

Whenever a number of individuals have a common name, we assume them to have also a corresponding idea or form.

There is no illness of the body except for the mind

I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know.

To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly