A person's life is what their thoughts make it.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.

Man is born for deeds of kindness.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.

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