We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur

What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?

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

It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.

You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.

Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.