What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.
All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.
Little things console us because little things afflict us.
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.
To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.