The wise man is not so in all things.
Even on the highest throne, one sits on one's own bottom.
We care more that people talk about us than how they talk about us.
Even if I could make myself fearsome, I would prefer to make myself kind.
There is no present: what we call so is just the point of union between the future and the past.
Science is a scepter in certain hands, while in others it is only a plaything.
Every honorable person would rather lose honor than lose conscience.
Of all the benefits that virtue brings us, one of the greatest is the contempt for death.
He who does not live in some way for others, also does not live for himself.