It is well to be born either a king or a fool.

All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.

Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.