In times of stress, be bold and valiant.

We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.

Brighter than Parian marble.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.