The conscience of the dying belies their life.

Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful.

When we feel that we lack whatever is needed to secure someone else's esteem, we are very close to hating him

The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions.

The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of beauty or ugliness, health or weakness, ability or stupidity? A slight difference in the organs, a little more or a little less bile. Yet this more or less is of infinite importance to men; and when they think otherwise they are mistaken.