The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.