So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

As long as you live, learn how to live.

Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.

Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.

Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.

Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.

There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.