The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.

Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives us.

Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.