For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
A great fortune is a great slavery.
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
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.
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it