Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.

No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.

Be cheerful, if you are wise.

It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.

To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.

I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.

Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.