The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.

Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.

It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

Do not grudge your brother his rest. He has at last become free, safe and immortal, and ranges joyous through the boundless heavens; he has left this low-lying region and has soared upwards to that place which receives in its happy bosom the souls set free from the chains of matter. Your brother has not lost the light of day, but has obtained a more enduring light. He has not left us, but has gone on before.