Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it.
The most happy ought to wish for death.
To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.
The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.
As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.
Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.
The miserable are sacred.
We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.
It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.
Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.
Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
Self-denial is the best riches.
Know thyself; this is the great object.
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.
When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor.
Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.