He who fears from near at hand often fears less.
The profit on a good action is to have done it.
Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.