As our inclinations, so our opinions.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

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

Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.

I am the Spirit that denies.

Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.

Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.