You can't tell your friend you've been cuckolded; even if he doesn't laugh at you, he may put the information to personal use

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Confidence in another person's virtue is no light evidence of your own.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

There is no course of life so weak and Scottish as that which is ordered by orders, method, and discipline.

I can easily imagine Socrates in Alexander's place; Alexander in that of Socrates - never