The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.

The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.

He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

But the universe is infinite.

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

It is not the young man who should be considered fortunate but the old man who has lived well, because the young man in his prime wanders much by chance, vacillating in his beliefs, while the old man has docked in the harbor, having safeguarded his true happiness.