The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.
The miserable are sacred.
You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.