Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.

Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.

Love of action is not industry.