I wish you joy. To spend life's fleeting days mid joy that never meets an evil hour is to be blessed beyond compare.

Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never.

Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

No mortal ever knows happiness and good fortune all the way to the end. Each one is born with his bitterness waiting for him.

I have pondered on the causes of a life's shipwreck. I think that our lives are worse than the mind's quality would warrant. There are many who know virtue. We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Do not consider painful what is good for you.

Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.