The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.

He who is everywhere is nowhere.

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Everything may happen.

But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.

The expression of truth is simplicity.