To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice

All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.