He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.

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

We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.

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