Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.

It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.

Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

To the stars through difficulties.

He who is penitent is almost innocent.