When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?
A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.
To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.
A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.