A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
Health is the vital principle of bliss.
If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape.
Even though we can't have all we want, we ought to be thankful we don't get all we deserve.
Happy the man who can count his sufferings.
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
Considering the fortune you might have lost, you'll have to admit you're rich already.
I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.
Think of the ills from which you are exempt.
A man should always consider ... how much more unhappy he might be than he is.
The happiness of any given life is to be measured not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering, from positive evil.
Better to suffer than to die.
Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.
It isn't important to come out on top. What matters is to come out alive.
He who limps still walks.
I have gout, asthma, and seven other maladies, but am otherwise very well.
Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
Pain is no longer pain when it is past.
We are content to forgo joy when pain is also lost.
The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.
