We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.
To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself
Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.
Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully