Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.
Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue; Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech.
Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.
There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.