1981  Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

565  Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

1009  The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

997  Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

961  It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.