So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death...
For death is not the worst but when one wants to die and is not able even to...
It is best to live however one can be.
Not to be born is past all prizing best.
Best to live lightly unthinkingly.
The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.
Whoever thinks that he alone has speech or possesses speech or mind above...
Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single...
Not even old age knows how to love death.
Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
You should not consider a man's age but his acts.
No lie ever reaches old age.
A man growing old becomes a child again.