Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.

For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.

But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.

Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are preparing to use it; when they do not require it, they allow it to remain unbent, for otherwise it would remain unserviceable when the time for using it arrived. So it is with man. If he were to devote himself unceasingly to a dull round of business, without breaking the monotony by cheerful amusements, he would fall imperceptibly into idiocy, or be struck by paralysis

Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.

Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.