Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.