“Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.”

“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”

“Love of bustle is not industry.”

“There will always be causes for anxiety, whether due to prosperity or to wretchedness. Life will be driven on through a succession of preoccupations: we shall always long for leisure, but never enjoy it.”

“Non est ad astra mollis e terris via.”

“Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune's control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”

“They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.”