A soldier when aged is not appreciated; the love of an old man sickens.

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

A woman is a creature that's always shopping.

I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure.

Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.