Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.

You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.

Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!

The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

To rule yourself is the ultimate power