Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.
Only the heart without a stain knows ease.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.
All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings