Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.
As if they were our own handiwork we place a high value on our characters.
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
Without confidence, there is no friendship.
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.