Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.