Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.