A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.

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

As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves

Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." "True happiness is ... to enjoy the present" "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

There is as much greatness of mind in the owning of a good turn as in the doing of it; and we must no more force a requital out of season than be wanting in it.