No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.
That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.