The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
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.
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
All men are idolators, some of fame, others of self-interest, most of pleasure.
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.