Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.
Speech is the mirror of the mind.
So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.