Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom see;For bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be.

To be over much facetious is the accomplishment of courtiers and blemish of the wise.

Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.

Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.

There is no great difficulty to separate the soul from the body, but it is not so easy to restore life to the dead.

That which is not allotted the hand cannot reach; what is allotted you will find wherever you may be.

God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed.