Fear drives the wretched to prayer
The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.
Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.
All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.