Nothing is achieved without toil.
Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.
You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death.
Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense, now and then, is pleasant.
Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.
I strive to be brief, and become obscure.