Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.
We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
Tis a human trait to hate one you have wronged.
Life without the courage to die is slavery.
It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to do so.
No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.
Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.
We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
No possession is gratifying without a companion.
To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.