Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.
Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!
Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for.
It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.