“I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances.”

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

Plain as a pike-staff.

The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.

Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head.

A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.

Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.

I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.

Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.

Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil’s back is spent under his belly.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.

Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.

Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist?

Evil tongues never want a whet.

It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.

On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory).

You, the sons and daughters, the future of Turkiye, even under such circumstances and conditions, your duty is to save the Turkish independence and the Republic, you will find the power you need in the noble blood in your veins.

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

The soul exceeds its circumstances.

To lose a son under those circumstances – a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.

That is the physics that all fearless types discover at some point – an appropriate ratcheting up of self-belief and energy when facing negative or even impossible circumstances.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.

It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.