Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

Anger is a short madness.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.