To philosophise is to learn how to die. - Michel de Montaigne

Would I fortify myself against the fear of death, it must be at the expense of Seneca: would I extract consolation for myself or my friend, I must borrow it from Cicero. I might have found it in myself, had I been trained to make use of my own reason. I do not like this relative and mendicant understanding; for though we could become learned by other men's learning, a man can never be wise but by his own wisdom.

For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts.

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.