When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.

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

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

Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.

Poverty needs much, avarice everything.

It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.