A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.