Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Solitude is bearable only with God.
Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.