Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.

Solitude is bearable only with God.

Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.