The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.
Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
O philosophy, life’s guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life.
Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.