The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.