The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.

Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

We are not all equal, nor can we be so.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.