If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.
It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.
As long as you live, learn how to live.
Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting.
The miserable are sacred.
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.