Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.

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.

The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.

The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.

What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

We learn not in the school, but in life.