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.

There is no fair wind for one who knows not whither he is bound.

To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.

As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.