Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because... The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.

Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.

Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.

Work before eating, rest after eating. Eat not ravenously, filling the mouth gulp after gulp without breathing space.

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

For it is said, "You shall strengthen the stranger and the dweller in your midst and live with him," that is to say, strengthen him until he needs no longer fall upon the mercy of the community or be in need.

In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary