Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.
Ignorance is the cause of fear.
Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.
Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.