True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.
Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
Happiness is unrepented pleasure.
Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.