“There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness”

“Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came”

“When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth toward death?Anyone who warms their heart with the glow Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all. The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That's all there is to be said.”

“There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.”

“I will suffer nothing as great as death without glory.”

“Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the powerTo reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul—A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.”

“Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.”