How delicious is pleasure after torment!
He who is hated by all can not expect to live long.
Just as We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. So too we never taste sadness completely, as things could always be worse in some way and for this we can be grateful.
Kindness acts Not always as you think; a hated hand Renders it odious.
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.