Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.

Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they may be taken from us by ill luck or by violence; but a kindness lasts even after the loss of that by means of which it was bestowed; for it is a good deed, which no violence can undo.

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain

Speech is the index of the mind.