Know thyself; this is the great object.
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." "True happiness is ... to enjoy the present" "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.
Wisdom comes to no one by chance.
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.