Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.

Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.

Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.