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The death of the wise is a death without fear of death.

Death comes to everyone: it is a law, and not a punishment.

First we part with childhood and then with youth.

Comparing our world to the universe, we consider it to be just a point.

Old age is rewarding if you know how to use it.

Passions make the stupidest of men wise, and make fools of the wisest.

Fearing to lose is the same as mourning the lost.

Shame sometimes forbids what laws do not forbid.

Fate gives nothing in eternal possession. Let's enjoy the company of friends, because we don't know how long it will be available to us.

Those who lived before us did many things, but they did not carry anything through.

Only time belongs to us.

Only reason can ensure our peace.

He who is gripped by anger, it is better to delay making the decision.

He who gives vague advice when needed is not really giving any advice.

Whoever does good to another does good to himself, not in the sense of the consequences, but in that of the act itself, because the idea itself is already the cause of great joy.

Nature is hard to change.

You are indignant that there are no grateful people in the world. Ask your conscience whether all who have done you a favor count you grateful.

A deep mistake often takes on the dimension of an iniquity.

It's not hard to bear the pain, it's to bear it all the time.

There is no limit to wandering.

Joy has an obligatory characteristic of its own: it cannot end or transform into its opposite.

Ugliness is the best means for a woman to preserve her virtue.

Shame lost never returns.

It is not difficult for the learned not to be defiant and envious.

You have to learn when you're young so you can enjoy what you know when you're old.

Philosophy is not something secondary, but fundamental.

Only he who teaches you to do well teaches you to speak well.

The hardest of sufferings is to be dependent on your sufferings.

Caesar is forbidden many things, because everything is permitted to him.