Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.

It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.

Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.

Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.