Whoever does not respect life, does not deserve it.

Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.

Ask counsel of him who rules himself well.

A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.

If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind.