The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.
Lack of desire is the greatest riches.
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult