“To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.”

Dogs wait for us faithfully.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle – friendship can only exist between good men.

Not for ourselves alone are we born.

Is not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy?

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.

The fruit of too much liberty is slavery.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

We were not created for death, but for life in abundance: eternal life.

Most grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger.

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.

The price of freedom is death.