As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
While we wait for life, life passes.
Life is long, if you know how to use it.
While we teach, we learn.
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
Where fear is, happiness is not.