“Agathon: One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.”

“There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.”

“To leave a good memory of oneself, one must earn a place in the memory of others.”

“We must make people aware of the misfortunes they suffer and of their chances to destroy them. We must awaken sympathy in everybody for the misfortunes of others and a warm desire for the good of all people.”

“A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.”

“Sometimes one must be base in order not to be tricked by a clever man.”

“So many men are deprived of grace. How can one live without grace? One has to try it and do what Christianity never did: be concerned with the damned.”

“Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?”

“How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.”

“We all must try to be good.”