If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief.

No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.

In trying to be concise I become obscure.

Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.

Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year.

He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.