While we teach, we learn.

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

While we teach, we learn.

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

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

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

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

Men learn while they teach.

The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

Two elements must therefore be rooted out once for all, the fear of future suffering, and the recollection of past suffering; since the latter no longer concerns me, and the former concerns me not yet.

They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.

He who indulges in empty fears earns himself real fears.

Injustice never rules forever.

You want to live – but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying – and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

All your sorrows have been wasted on you if you have not yet learned how to be wretched.

All this hurrying from place to place won’t bring you any relief, for you’re travelling in the company of your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way.

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.

While we wait for life, life passes.

To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.

There is no genius without a touch of madness.

The wise man is neither raised up by prosperity nor cast down by adversity; for always he has striven to rely predominantly on himself, and to derive all joy from himself.

The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

Many men will meet me who are drunkards, lustful, ungrateful, greedy, and excited by the frenzy of ambition.

It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it.

Too late is it to be on one’s guard, to exercise caution, when plunged in misfortune.

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

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

Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end.

We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

If we let things terrify us life will not be worth living.

He who is sorry for having sinned is almost innocent.

We should give as we would receive cheerfully quickly and without hesitation for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

You are your choices.

No possession is gratifying without a companion.

The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

One who daily puts the finishing touches on his life is never in want of time.

He whose daily life has been a rounded whole is easy in his mind.

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

Death is the wish of some the relief of many and the end of all.

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away but not that of having had one.

There is never a time when new distraction will not show up we sow them so several will grow from the same seed.

People pay the doctor for his trouble for his kindness they still remain in his debt.

There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves but the humor goes round and he that laughs at me to day will have somebody to laugh at him to morrow.

No one can have all he wants but a man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.