Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.
Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.