Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.

The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove.

Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.

The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.

I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.

What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?