The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Dignity increases more easily than it begins.

What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it.

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience.