Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.

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

What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.

Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.

Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.

The whole discord of this world consists in discords.

Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.