And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.

On hearing about powerful love, respond, be moved like an aesthete. Only, fortunate as you've been, remember how much your imagination created for you.

The days of the future stand in front of us Like a line of candles all alight Golden and warm and lively little candles.

If you are one of the truly elect, be careful how you attain your eminence.

And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.

Nero wasn't worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: "Beware the age of seventy-three." Plenty of time to enjoy himself still. He's thirty. The deadline the god has given him is quite enough to cope with future dangers.

What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today.