“Life is like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.”

A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.

Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.

Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

If you don’t know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.

Many things have fallen only to rise higher.

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.