Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.
The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.
The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.