The great soul surrenders itself to fate.

If you want to be loved, love.

No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.