Learn how to feel joy.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur