It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.

If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.