Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.

The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.

The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.

Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.

Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand.

Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.