The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.
Better to suffer than to die.
It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
He knows the universe and does not know himself.
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.