162 definitions
Annihilation (n.) removes sensation and leaves a man exactly as though he had never been born.
Body (n.) is a prison, and the better the man, the easier his escape from the bonds of the flesh.
Consolation (n.) consists chiefly in being free from the mistaken notion which generally causes pain at the departure of friends.
Death (n.) holds nothing good if body and soul perish together — but at least nothing bad.
Definition (n.) pushed to a superfluous accuracy may have truth on its side, but it is of no practical advantage.
Friendship (n.) has one true secret: the most complete harmony in tastes, pursuits, and sentiments.
Friendship (n.) of the highest kind is so rare that in all history there are scarcely three or four pairs of friends on record.
Friendship (n.) is the greatest thing in the world, for nothing so fits in with our nature or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.
Friendship (n.) can only exist between good men.
Friendship (n.) excels kinship in this: you may take affection out of kinship, but not out of friendship — without it kinship still exists in name, friendship does not.
Friendship (n.) concentrates what the human race shares only loosely: its affection is shared by two persons only, or at most by a few.
Funeral rites (n.) are proof that our ancestors never believed the dead to be wholly annihilated.
Good man (n.) is free from greed, lust, and violence, and has the courage of his convictions.
Grief (n.) severe at one's own misfortunes does not show that you love your friend, but that you love yourself.
Happiness (n.) can be a whole life counted happy for one reason: it was spent with a friend.