"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it."
Time
"The human mind is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future."
Imagination
"A man is as wretched as he has convinced himself he is."
Motivation
"He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand."
Wisdom
"To be everywhere is to be nowhere."
"The greatest joy comes from the good opinion of wise and virtuous men."
Success
"Leisure without study is death; it is a tomb for the living man."
Education
"We should every night call ourselves to an account."
"Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind agrees."
Friendship
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
Courage
"The time of life that passes never returns."
Time
"Such a course is sure to lead a man to poverty; how far this will go, cannot be foreseen."
Money
"True liberty consists of the right to do whatever the laws permit."
Freedom
"Luck is where preparation and opportunity meet."
Success
"Death is the one thing we should never mock, for it comes to all men."
Death
"To live is to think."
Philosophy
"No one has ever won a war by being the first to leave the battlefield."
Perseverance
"A man is as miserable as he has made up his mind to be."
Happiness
"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."
Change
"Wisdom is the antidote to confusion."
Wisdom
"What is the source of all illness? Despair."
Health
"The trials of the body are trials of the spirit."
Strength
"If you would know the depths of depravity to which the human mind can sink, study the corruptions of power."
Power
"Virtue is its own reward."
Justice
"Do not seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do."
Peace
"Life without testing is like food without seasoning."
Life
"The highest blessing is that which remains after the removal of all that can be removed."
Gratitude
"We are dying from the moment we are born, but we do not notice it."
Death
"There is a certain relief in change, even if it be from bad to worse."
Change
"What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself."
Friendship