The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.

Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.