If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.

Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.

Something that can never be learnt too thoroughly can never be said too often.

There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in which I live, the ship in which I will sail, so will I choose the time and manner of my death.

Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)

The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.

Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.