No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.

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.