Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.