Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.

We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.

Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.

Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.

Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.

On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.