I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

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

If virtue precede us every step will be safe.

A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is a fool; similarly, only an absolute fool values a man according to his clothes, or according to his position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing.

Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.

What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.