So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.

After death there is nothing.

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.

Real improvement is of slow growth only.

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.