There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.

To the stars through difficulties.

Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.

Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.