In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.
Fire is next akin to smoke.
Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.