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

Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

Luck never made a man wise.

The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.

It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.