Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
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.
Anger is a short madness.
Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!
Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.
Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek.