“The greatest and glorious masterpiece of a man is how to live with a purpose.”

“The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with purpose.”

“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.”

“The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live to the point.”

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”

“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.”

“No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten timesin his life he might not lawfully be hanged.”