Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.

Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.

We haven't time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere outside the world we know-when every day we're running into our own storms, spiritual storms, and driven by vice into all the troubles that Ulysses ever knew.

No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?

It is not goodness to be better than the worst.