In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves to be murdered without resistance.

The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.

Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.

Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.

Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully