As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites

The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.