We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?

The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

It is well to be born either a king or a fool.