Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.
When one has lost a friend one’s eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.
Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.
See what daily exercise does for one.
So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
Every journey has an end.
The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.
What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?
On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the very nature of God!
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for investigation for all generations.
We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.
Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.
It’s the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
Revenge is an inhuman word.