Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

Frugality is one thing, avarice another.

Boy, I loathe Persian luxury.

The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.

Our years Glide silently away. No tears, No loving orisons repair The wrinkled cheek, the whitening hair That drop forgotten to the tomb.

Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day of their existence.

The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.