The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.

As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value

He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.

Glory arrives too late when it comes only to one's ashes

Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible.

Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you.

A man's happiness,-to do the things proper to man.