Do not interfere when your opinion is not sought.

Always be ready; always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

I have sought for happiness everywhere, but I have found it nowhere except in a little corner with a little book.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.