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?
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Where fear is, happiness is not.
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
Nothing is our except time.
Let us be brave in the face of adversity.
To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.
If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.