Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.

We cannot be held to what is beyond our strength and means; for at times the accomplishment and execution may not be in our power, and indeed there is nothing really in our own power except the will: on this are necessarily based and founded all the principles that regulate the duty of man.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part is no less necessary than the other.

Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.