One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.

This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.

There is nothing after death, and death itself is nothing.

Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.