There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.

Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one.

He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.

The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.