Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger

The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.

[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.