Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.