To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
In everything one must consider the end.
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
A hare is not caught with a drum.