The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.

Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.