Apples taste sweetest when they're going.

In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases.

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.

Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.

No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

Everything hangs on one's thinking.