“Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.”

“I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.”

“What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.”

“To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.”

“The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”

“It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”

“While there’s life, there’s hope.”