It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.

Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.

The world itself is too small for the covetous.

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience.

Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)

A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.