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

For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

Contentment is natural wealth.