One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.

We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.

For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.

What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.

The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.