Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
If you have the least doubt about it, do not marry.
Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.
We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.
False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.