While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.

There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow passes away. Even time itself, like a river, is constantly gliding away .

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.