Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.

Welcome will arrived, the hour that was not hoped for.

Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.

In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.