The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.

God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies

Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.

Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.

Enough is an abundance to the wise.

The wisest men follow their own direction.

It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior.

Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.

A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.

You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard, and it's a shame not to want to work hard.

To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolish.

Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven.

I have found power in the mysteries of thought.

Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday.

Whoso neglects to learn in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.