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

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

To save a mans life against his will is the same as killing him.

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