Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.
Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.
Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.
Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.