A human being is only breath and shadow.
Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.
Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.