Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.

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

Let us both small and great push forward in this work, in this pursuit, if to our country, if to ourselves we would live dear.

You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.