Here is your great soul—the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.