He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
In love there are two evils: war and peace.
We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.
In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it a mistress, if thou knowest not.
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour.
Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.
We are free to yield to truth.
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?
Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.
Live mindful of how brief your life is.
Whatever advice you give be short.
Better to accept whatever happens.
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.