Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.
He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.
Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.