Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing.

Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.

Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge?

Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.

Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.

Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words worthy to be kept in cedar oil to latest times, to leave behind him rhymes that dread neither herrings nor frankincense.

He who conquers, endures.