If you wish to be loved, love.
The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.
Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.