When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure.
Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.
I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good.
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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.