Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the dumb can understand. There is none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to themselves.
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes.
What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes. For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him. A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty. All cruelty springs from hard-heartedness and weakness. Difficulties strengthen the mind as labor does the body.