All art is but imitation of nature.
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
If you wished to be loved, love.
No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
No man was ever wise by chance.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
A great mind becomes a great fortune.
A great fortune is a great slavery.
In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.