The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.

If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.

Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.