Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
Full of men, vacant of friends.
So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.
There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.
No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today