Boredom ... Causes Us To Neglect More

We Cannot Possibly Imagine The Variety Of Contradictions In Every Heart.

Those Who Give Too Much Attention To Trifling Things Become Generally Incapable Of Great Ones.

Virtue Is To The Soul What Health Is Tot He Body.

The Contempt Of Riches In Philosophers Was Only A Hidden Desire To Avenge Their Merit Upon The Injustice Of Fortune, By Despising The Very Goods Of Which Fortune Had Deprived Them; It Was A Secret To Guard Themselves Against The Degradation Of Poverty, It Was A Back Way By Which To Arrive At That Distinction Which They Could Not Gain By Riches.

No One Thinks Fortune So Blind As Those She Has Been Least Kind To.