It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .

When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and so on. Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we're practically showered with them. It's good to keep this in mind.

Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives us.

‎"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial

It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them.

When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.