Those alone are wise who know how to love.

Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.

A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.