MARRY.

 By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

 We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

 Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

 If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.