I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.

Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.

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

The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

Don't long for the unripe grape.

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.