Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues
The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
All that we do is done with an eye to something else.
To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.
A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else.