Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?

Wisdom comes to no one by chance.

Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.

Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.

The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.

To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.