If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.

A man that runs away may fight again.

There is but one genuine love potion - consideration.

No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.

Do not fight against Providence; nor bring more heavy weather to the storm. Face what is already there.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Sleep is a healing balm for every ill.