Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.

When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.