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.

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

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

Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.

There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Nothing has happened to you unless you make much of it.