Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live – and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.
Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.
Old loves are dropped when new ones come.
Do not plan for ventures before finishing what’s at hand.
Experience, travel – these are an education in themselves.
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn’t getting something or failure to get it; it’s losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Leave no stone unturned.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
God in heaven has dominion Over so many events. He can frustrate what seems inevitable, And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
He is not a lover who does not love forever.
Silence is true wisdom’s best reply.
Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven.