“Death is not one of our social managements; it is a scene with one character.”

“We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.”

“To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.”

“To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere." "To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.”

“Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.”

“No one is exempt from speaking nonsense. The great misfortune is to do it solemnly.”

“No one should be subjected to force over things which belonged to him.”