The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately
We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share in anything that is worth having; and that on the other hand, everyone must incur many of the ills of life
A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.