Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.

They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites.

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.

Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.