The key to getting everything you want is to never put all your begs in one ask-it!
Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.
It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.