Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?

He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

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.

Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

There is no power greater than true affection.