The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.