"Consider the life of a man of forty, and the life of a man of ten thousand years; what difference is there? For both the past is gone, and the future is uncertain."

"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect."

"Do not waste the remainder of thy life in thoughts about others, when thou dost not refer thy thoughts to some object of common utility. For thou wilt lose thy opportunity for doing anything else."

"How many things are there of which I have gained a knowledge, not by the help of reason, but by experience!"

"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."