The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.

Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.