Mercy often inflicts death.

True love hates and will not bear delay.

If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

... frugality makes a poor man rich.

Do not grudge your brother his rest. He has at last become free, safe and immortal, and ranges joyous through the boundless heavens; he has left this low-lying region and has soared upwards to that place which receives in its happy bosom the souls set free from the chains of matter. Your brother has not lost the light of day, but has obtained a more enduring light. He has not left us, but has gone on before.

If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.