"Life is warfare."

"Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war."

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

"Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery."

"That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty."

"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it."

"Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way."

"Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."

"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."

"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."

"A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature."

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness."

"Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today."

"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable."

"Success consecrates the most offensive crimes."

"A great fortune is a great slavery."

"We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right."

"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."

"Crime when it succeeds is called virtue."

"Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly."

"Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it."

"God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is."

"For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them."

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."

"I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair."

"Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one."

"For greed all nature is too little."

"When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill."

"Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing."

"The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth."

"It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin."

"A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty."

"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."

"I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene."

"A man's as miserable as he thinks he is."

"The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger."

"Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue."

"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."

"Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes."

"If you wished to be loved, love."

"All art is but imitation of nature."

"Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb."

"Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them."

"He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it."

"Life, if well lived, is long enough."

"We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods."

"No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline."

"Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody."

"No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it."

"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."