Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune,'and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.

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

Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.

It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; / Griefs, where they wound in solitude, / Wound more deeply.

There’s some end at last for the man who follows a path: mere rambling is interminable.

If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There s no delight in owning anything unshared.

Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.