The best cure for anger is delay.
Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.
No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.
Don't stumble over something behind you.
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.