If your life at night is good, you think you have everything.

Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.

It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

All men know their children mean more than life.

Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.

We know the good, we apprehend it clearly; but we can't bring it to achievement.