We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us.

Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.