Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death
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Fine gold is recognized when it is tested.
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Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death o...
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Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.
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That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches. Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us...
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All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.
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Nothing should be so greatly feared as empty fame.
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You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
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Our life is made by the death of others.
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All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions
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He who does not value life does not deserve it.
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
