There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.
Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.