Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that of ourselves; solitude relieves us when we are sick of company, and conversation when we are weary of being alone, so that the one cures the other. There is no man so miserable as he that is at a loss how to use his time

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." "True happiness is ... to enjoy the present" "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.

Man is a social animal.

Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain

It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.

The language of truth is unvarnished enough.