It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.
Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.
A troubled countenance oft discloses much.