I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.

The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself "I'll do it tomorrow," and how the gods have again and again granted you periods of grace of which you have not availed yourself. It is time to realize that you are a member of the Universe, that you are born of Nature itself, and to know that a limit has been set to your time. Use every moment wisely, to perceive your inner refulgence, or 'twill be gone and nevermore within your reach.

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads