You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

To prefer it is better than to only know it. To delight in it is better than merely to prefer it.

Be loyal and trustworthy. Do not befriend anyone who is lower than yourself in this regard.

When a man comes to me, I accept him at his best, not at his worst. Why make so much ado? When a man washes his hands before paying a visit, and you receive him in that clean state, you do not thereby stand surety for his always having been clean in the past.

Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.

A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.

A man without a mustache is a man without a soul.