I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.

The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.

He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.

Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.

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.