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

The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.

Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.

He who is brave is free.

No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.