If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
The truth is always the strongest argument.
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.
Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.