We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.

No one can keep a mask on long.

How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.