Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.

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

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.

There exists no more difficult art than living.