"What is the use of running when you are on the wrong road?"

"There are many things in life that are not worth having, but there is nothing that is not worth doing."

"The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea."

"By a happy fatality, the greater part of mankind, being unable to get wisdom, enjoy instead a kind of folly that is next door to it."

"The most effective way to be happy is to not desire anything."