Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.

Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and be more indebted to the severity of your own judgment of yourself than to all external percepts. Desist from unseemly conduct, rather out of respect for your own virtue than for the strictures of external authority.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. [...because they focus on what they don't have rather than being grateful for what they have, which is always better than some others.]

Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone.

The greatest wisdom often consist in ignorance.

Oh life, you should never had begun, but since you did, you should never end