A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.

As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.

Do what you should, not what you may.

Dignity increases more easily than it begins.

The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.