As long as you live, learn how to live.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

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.

There is no power greater than true affection.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.