Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.