The most voluntary death is the finest.

Life depends upon the pleasure of others; death upon our own.

We ought not to accommodate ourselves to our own humour in anything so much as in this.
Reputation is not concerned in such an enterprise; 'tis folly to be concerned by any such apprehension.

Living is slavery if the liberty of dying be wanting.

The ordinary method of cure is carried on at the expense of life; they torment us with caustics, incisions, and amputations of limbs; they interdict aliment and exhaust our blood; one step farther and we are cured indeed and effectually.