There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience.

A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.

Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.

Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.

I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.