The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable.
I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure...
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors.
Whom the dawn sees proud, evening sees prostrate.
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
After death there is nothing.
Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds...
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody...
There exists no more difficult art than living.
The key to getting everything you want is to never put all your begs in one ask-it!
True love can fear no one.
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-.
The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.