Evil Is Easy, And Has Infinite Forms.

Men Seek Rest In A Struggle Against Difficulties; And When They Have Conquered These, Rest Becomes Insufferable.

There Was Once In Man A True Happiness Of Which There Now Remain To Him Only The Mark And Empty Trace, Which He In Vain Tries To Fill From All His Surroundings, Seeking From Things Absent The Help He Does Not Obtain In Things Present.

Equality Of Possessions Is No Doubt Right, But, As Men Could Not Make Might Obey Right, They Have Made Right Obey Might.

Losses Are Comparative; Imagination Only Makes Them Of Any Moment.

No Soul Of High Estate Can Take Pleasure In Slander. It Betrays A Weakness.