All victories breed, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.

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.

Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.

There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.

If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would.

Be first the master of yourself