Familiar Quotations

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

Either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from the world to another… Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.