The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.

Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.

The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.

To teach is to delight.