Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.

Life is most delightful on the downward slope.

Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

There exists no more difficult art than living.