There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.
No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.
Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.
Simple is the language of truth.
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.