We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.
That which takes effect by chance is not an art.
Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.
It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.