Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.

As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.

A man must become wise at his own expense.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.

It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.

Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure.