Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
The vain being is the really solitary being.
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.
The world is the same everywhere.