Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.

Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.

Nothing, it appears to me, is of greater value in a man than the power of judgment; and the man who has it may be compared to a chest filled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.