How soon will time cover all things.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives.

Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them.

Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty.

Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.

Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.