Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.
Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.
In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.