“The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.”

“The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.”

“Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.”

“Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.”

“The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.”

“Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.”

“A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.”

“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.”

“Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.”

“Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.”

“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”