We don't receive wisdom; We must discover it.

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.