No man in his senses will dance.
There is not a moment without some duty.
To live long it is necessary to live slowly.
Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.
What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.