Let us reflect in this way, too, that there is good hope that death is a blessing, for it is one of two things: either the dead are nothing and have no perception of anything, or it is, as we are told, a change and a relocation for the soul from here to another place.

Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living

All that we know is nothing can be known.

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.