Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
There can be no happiness without good health
You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.