These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.

Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.

Every change of place becomes a delight.

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our sorrows, and counsels us in all extremities. Nay, if there were no other comfort in it than the pare exercise of so generous a virtue, even for that single reason a man would not be without it; it is a sovereign antidote against all calamities - even against the fear of death itself.