No one can have all he desires.
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.
No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.