It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.