Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.