Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Full of men, vacant of friends.

Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.

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