The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.
The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.
Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.