The sun also shines on the wicked.
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
When I think over what I have said I envy dumb people.
Pain is slight if opinion has added nothing to it; ... in thinking it slight, you will make it slight. Everything depends on opinion. It is according to opinion that we suffer. A man is as wretched as...
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and--what will perhaps make you wonder more--it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man to enjoy the present without anxious dependence on the future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied...
Men learn while they teach.
Learn how to feel joy.
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Injustice never rules forever.
Night brings our troubles to the light rather than banishes them.
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
f you wish to put off all worry, assume that what you fear may happen is certainly going to happen.
A good mind possesses a kingdom: a great fortune is a great slavery.
Fire tries gold misery tries brave men.
It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.
A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.