Looking for collections of anecdotes, witticisms and sage advice from somebodies life or in general

It's one of my favorite genres to read and I like to re-visit these books because they can be browsed through to find something for almost every Life situation. I'm German and the "classics" in this type of Genre are Lichtenbergs "Sudelbücher" and Kurt Tucholsky's notebooks by the same name. There are also Maximilien La [...]