The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.
The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
Man is born for deeds of kindness.
When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.
Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.