We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.

Be harsh with yourself at times.

Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances.

Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknown land.

A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.