Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in subjection.
Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.