Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.

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?

If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.

Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.

The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they may be taken from us by ill luck or by violence; but a kindness lasts even after the loss of that by means of which it was bestowed; for it is a good deed, which no violence can undo.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.