Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia .

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind.