Don't stumble over something behind you.

Those alone are wise who know how to love.

Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.

Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.

Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.

In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.