This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.
If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.