The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure; if any one returns it, that is clear gain; if he does not return it, it is not lost, I gave it for the sake of giving.
The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.
It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.