See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.

Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.

There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.

No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.

Fear drives the wretched to prayer