It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.

Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.

We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.

Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.

Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.

The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.

To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.