Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.
Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.
Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.
To live is not to live for one's self; let us help one another.