For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.

Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.

It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

To never have been born may be the greatest boon of all.

Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.

Better not to exist than live basely.