Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.

He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.

Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.