He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.

Leave other people's mistakes where they lie.

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.

In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight, his body a prey of worms, his soul an unquiet eddy, his fortune dark, his fame doubtful. In short, all that is body is as coursing waters, all that is of the soul as dreams and vapors.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.