The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.

One must steer, not talk.

Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.

Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.

Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)

Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.