Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.

Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.

We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur

He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.

Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.

Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.