The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure; if any one returns it, that is clear gain; if he does not return it, it is not lost, I gave it for the sake of giving.

A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.

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

That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.

The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it.