If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us
History is the lie commonly agreed upon.
Virtuous men alone possess friends.
I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.