Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
A sage has one advantage; he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
