Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.
The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.
Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.