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

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another’s heart.

For the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

In times of war, the law falls silent.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself?

Life is nothing without friendship.

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

Christ didn’t die just so you could make to heaven; He lives so you can make it through earth!

They wanna hang us, see us dead, or enslave us, keep us trapped in the same place we raised in. Then they wonder why we act so outrageous, run around stressed out and pull out gauges.

If I should die this very day, Don’t cry…cause on Earth We wasn’t meant to stay.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

The stakes are too high for us to die with a small vision.

If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.