Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.
Fine conduct is always spontaneous.
Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
Resistance to oppression is second nature.