To keep is more important than to make friends.

We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.

Wisdom and courage make mutual contributions to greatness.

Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.