He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
To find yourself, think for yourself.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half.
Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
Every action has its pleasures and its price.
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.
Be true to thine own self.
Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.
Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?
If today were the last day of my life, Would I want to do what I'm about to do today? And whenever the answer has been "no" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
