There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.
Dignity increases more easily than it begins.
No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.