Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

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

To meditate an injury is to commit one.

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.

The part of life which we really live is short.