Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

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

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

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.

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.

I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.

All I know is that I do not know anything