We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.

The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.

It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.