To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.

A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.

Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.

Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment