A constant element of enjoyment must be mingled with our studies, so that we think of learning as a game rather than a form of drudgery, for no activ… - Erasmus

But who are they that for no other reason but that they were weary of life have hastened their own fate? Were they not the next neighbors to wisdom? among whom, to say nothing of Diogenes, Xenocrates, Cato, Cassius, Brutus, that wise man Chiron, being offered immortality, chose rather to die than be troubled with the same thing always.

Nothing can be called unhappy if it fulfils its own nature, unless you would conclude that a man ought to be pitied because he cannot fly about with the birds, and cannot run on four feet like the whole family of beasts, and is not armed with horns like a bull.

Ma questa, dicono, è appunto follia. Non voglio negarlo, purché in compenso si riconosca che questo è il modo di recitare la commedia della vita.