Occupation: Author Birth: 23 Death: August 25, 79
Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour..
The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, ar….
Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at..
Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man..
Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations..
When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it..
Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life..
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work..
The happier the moment the shorter..
The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to los….
This only is certain, that there is nothing certain..
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?.
Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother..
The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest..
Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other..
A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good..
Human nature is fond of novelty..
I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the….
Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited..
To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle o….
In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew..