The part of life which we really live is short.

Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.

There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.

But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.

Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.