Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

The healthy eye ought to see all visible things and not to say, I wish for green things; for this is the condition of a diseased eye.

The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.