No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.

You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

The great soul surrenders itself to fate.

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

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.