How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.
The workman still is greater than his work.
In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others."
The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
To live is not to live for one's self; let us help one another.
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.