Whatever your advice, make it brief.
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.
The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.
Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence?
The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God.