Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.

That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.

What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.

We learn not in the school, but in life.

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.

Life without the courage for death is slavery.