I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.

A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.

Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a 'happy' one?

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.