You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.