Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Philosophy is the health of the mind.
The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.
For greed, all nature is too little.
Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.