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

Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.

It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.

Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our sorrows, and counsels us in all extremities. Nay, if there were no other comfort in it than the pare exercise of so generous a virtue, even for that single reason a man would not be without it; it is a sovereign antidote against all calamities - even against the fear of death itself.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.