Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.

The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.

It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.

I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.