No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.

What else is nature but God?

Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.

Men practice war; beasts do not.

There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.