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hold every hour in your grasp. Lay hold of today’s task, and you will not need to depend so much upon tomorrow’s.
“Contented poverty is an honourable estate.” Indeed, if it be contented, it is not poverty at all. It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Do you ask what is the proper limit to wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary, and, second, to have what is enough.
No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it,
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat—the superfluous things that wear our togas threadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores. That which is enough is ready to our hands.
if wisdom were given me under the express condition that it must be kept hidden and not uttered, I should refuse it. No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.
“What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.” That was indeed a great benefit; such a person can never be alone. You may be sure that such a man is a friend to all mankind.
