The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.

Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.

The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.