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

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

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.

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

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

No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.

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

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

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

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