We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

Life is a constant process of dying.