Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.

Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance.

Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.