Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself.

Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.

To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.

Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher

The warm love has the coldest end.

What a lot of things I don't need.