The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth.

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.

If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.

Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?... what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.