Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?

No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.

Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.

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

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.

The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.