It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.

Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger

The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.

The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution