When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.

A great estate is a great disadvantage to those who do not know how to use it, for nothing is more common than to see wealthy persons live scandalously and miserably; riches do them no service in order to virtue and happiness; therefore 'tis precept and principle, not an estate, that makes a man good for something.

Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.

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

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.