Collection of phrases and quotes about life.
Experience is a good school, but the tuition is very expensive.
Objective reality has just evaporated.
People change and often forget to communicate that change to others.
Men who are self-sufficient are useless to true friendship.
Youth has lively genius and weak judgment.
Having raised the wall against the will of the immortal gods, it was not meant to stand for a long time.
There is nothing as sweet as one's own homeland and parents, even if one has the most opulent mansion in a foreign and distant land.
Like the generation of leaves, so is the generation of men. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, and the forest, greening, produces others when spring arrives: in the same way, one human generation is born and another perishes.
Miserable mortals who, like leaves, are either flourishing and vigorous as they eat the fruits of the earth, or become lifeless and die.
The gods plotted misfortunes so that men and future generations would have something to sing about.
What is eternal life but accepting the moment that comes and the moment that goes?
What is needed is to submit to the circumstances, not to submit oneself to them.