There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

The fortune of war is always doubtful.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.

A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.