The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness.
Hope is a great falsifier of truth.
Know or listen to those who know.
Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.
It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.
Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone.