It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.

Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.

Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.

Learn how to feel joy.

It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.

To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit