No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.
I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)
No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.