Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.
Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.
That corner of the world smiles for me more than anywhere else.
It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks.
Enjoy the present day, trust the least possible to the future.
He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.