The love to Wisdom is getting closer to the own bright path.
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.
If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.
If we don't know life, how can we know death?