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.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.

You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

People do not die - they kill themselves.