“No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.”

“no one ever gossips about the virtues of others”

“To endure uncertainity is difficult, but so are most of the other virtues.”

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”

“The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.”

“One must care about a world one will not see.”

“Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue.”