As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.
Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
Luck cannot change birth.
Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.
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.