A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
The most happy ought to wish for death.
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
Home joys are blessed of heaven.
Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.