If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

One must be something, in order to do something.

Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.