If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.
A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.
It is not great, but little good-haps that make up happiness.
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.