All is change; all yields its place and goes.
When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.
We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.
Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.