Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.