He that tries to seize an opportunity after it has passed him by is like one who sees it approach but will not go to meet it.

You are good when you are fully awake in your speech, Yet you are not evil when you sleep while your tongue staggers without purpose. And even stumbling speech may strengthen a weak tongue.

Conscience is a just but weak judge. Weakness leaves it powerless to execute its judgment.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.

He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow man.

You are a flower crushed beneath the feet of the animal that is concealed in a human being. Take comfort, in that you are the flower crushed and not the foot that has crushed it.