Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?
Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.
Work at it night and day.
You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.