He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
Whom they have injured they also hate.
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.