Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
True love hates and will not bear delay.
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
If you wish to be loved, love.
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.
If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor.
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
Time discovers truth.
Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.
No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.