Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.

You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.